I challenged a yogi a few months ago on the Yoga Journal Online Community, and he came through with flying colours…
Beauty in words.
MY question…
A relaxed mind is a creative mind…
This is a quote from Yogi Bhajan and can be used interchangeably with the following one:
A relaxed mind is a receptive mind.
Do you know why?
Here was the yogi’s answer…
‘When the mind is tense or filled with something, it is focused on that thing and cannot be open to outside experiences or teachings. When the mind is relaxed it is open to experience all that is going on. It reaches into the experience and gleans the wisdom that the experience has for it. At least that’s my thoughts on it.’
‘The creative part is an extension of gleaning the wisdom from experiences and people. The Infinite flows through the relaxed mind in such a way that time, expereince, and mindfulness, come together in one point. Creation is the result of the mind being in oneness with the Infinite so that our natural being is expressed out into the universe. The tense mind is unable to do any of that, or to much degree, because it is so focued on itself that it cannot see.
Ah, the ramblings of a fool!’
Yogirev
